History Characters / RanmaOneHalfMajorStoryArcCharacters

* AnimeChineseGirl: Also being from Joketsuzoku, they wear a Cheongasm uniform and hair buns much like Shampoo does.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Toramasa is prone to telling long, rambling stories that make absolutely no sense, creating narratives that would be wildly improbable even given they tend to mix and match events from across ''centuries''.

* FinalBoss: Of the third UsefulNotes/SuperFamicom fighting game.

* CloudCuckooLander: Sankichi literally sees ''every'' woman or girl he meets as his wife, addressing them by his wife's name and attacking others for being "too familiar" with her. It doesn't matter how different they look to his actual wife, he still is convinced that they are his wife. He literally addresses Akane, Nabiki ''and'' Kasumi as being his wife, all within a few minutes of each other. [[spoiler:Only when his wife is actually present does he stop doing this.]]

* DeterminalDetermination: [[spoiler:Despite discovering that Happosai is a DirtyOldMan, he refuses to be swayed from his goal of impressing the old lech and being formally recognized as his student (after a little unwitting peptalk from Akane). He succeeds in impressing Happosai... and also destroys his reputation and the good-will he had built up with the Tendo family.]]

* CloudCuckooLander: Toramasa is prone to telling long, rambling stories that make absolutely no sense, creating narratives that would be wildly improbable even given they tend to mix and match events from across ''centuries''.

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At her last junior high school, Ukyō Kuonji found herself the recipient of the affections of one Tsubasa Kurenai, who pursued her relentlessly. When Tsubasa tracked Ukyō to Nerima, it caused quite a stir... mainly because everyone thought that ''he'' was a ''she''. Usually, Tsubasa will be found hiding inside some sort of costume.

A member of the wealthy Chardin Family and a master of the Martial Arts Dining. He comes to the Nerima to demand one of the Tendō daughters as his future wife because Sōun once promised Picolet's family to give them one of his daughters' hand in marriage to pay off a debt. Having been defeated by Picolet in an eating duel in front of the whole school, Ranma decides to become Picolet's fiancée and learn the Martial Arts Dining in order to defeat him.

* AllCheeringAllTheTime: Mariko is constantly talking as if she was giving a cheer, spelling out words and rhyming. Notably, all of her appearances during the arc happen when she is performing Combat Cheerleading, so we don't know if she ever "turns it off" in the manga (in the anime she makes a few cameos afterwards, and in those she is in a cheering event when the craziness of Nerima comes knocking).

Ruler of the mysterious Musk Dynasty in deepest China, Prince Herb had never seen a woman since he was weaned from his mother. When told he would soon be expected to take a bride, he captured a monkey and went to Jusenkyo to find out what women looked like. An unfortunate accident involving the Nyanniichuan and the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Ladle of Locking]] ensured, and so he comes to Nerima in search of the Kettle of Opening, which will undo his problem.

* ArcVillain: For the Musk Dynasty arc, which fundamentally revolves around Ranma's need to defeat him to avenge his cruelty in Nerima.

* ShapeshifterModeLock: He's trapped in his female form because he got splashed with the Ladle of Locking. It's looking for a way to undo this that brings him to Nerima in the first place.

When Ryu's father was killed practicing one half of a paired school of martial arts that Genma invented, Ryu spent the rest of his life training himself to master the Yamasenken in hopes of tracking Genma down, taking the Umisenken and then building a new dojo to the memory of his father. When Nodoka mistook him for her long-lost son, he tried to take advantage of that to get what he wanted. But losing to Ranma revealed to him the ugly truth behind the 'Senken Schools' and so he left Nerima, a sadder but wiser man.

Pink and Link are a pair of identical twin herbalists from the neighbouring herbalist village to that of Shampoo, who was poisoned by Pink and then healed by Link. However, as they are twins, Shampoo couldn't tell them apart and so mistook them for the same person, leading her to beat up either one on sight whenever she met them. They come to Nerima to get revenge on Shampoo.

An Indian Hindu girl who is the recipient of the most powerful known Jusenkyo spring. Pantyhose Taro accidentally stumbled across Rouge bathing one day. During her resultant punishment of him, he accidentally got her magnetic plasters (for treating her constant backaches) stuck to him, so she chased him after he ran away from her fury. The two of them tore up Nerima until Ranma managed to settle the problems.

Wandering sisters who practice Anything-Goes Martial Arts, Natsume & Kurumi are the antagonists of the two-parter {{OAV}} "The One to Carry On". When they arrive in Nerima, they claim to be the daughters of Soun Tendo, who have been wandering Japan and honing their skills to establish their rights to be the heirs to the Tendo Dojo. This understandably infuriates Akane Tendo, the legitimate heir to the Tendo Dojo, who challenges them to a duel to see who is the true successor.

!Movie #1 Characters
[[folder:Kirin]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/KanetoShiozawa (Japanese), John Payne (English), Creator/IrwinDaayan (Latin American Spanish)

Ruler of Nekonron and leader of the Seven Lucky Gods School of Martial Arts, he comes to Nerima in search of a legendary scroll half... and if that is in the possession of a woman, he must marry that woman. As Akane happens to be holding it at the time, HilarityEnsues.

* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: It wasn't his fault. He was supposed to come for the bearer of that scroll, and just ''happened'' to come at the exact moment Lychee let Akane take a look at it.
* AntiVillain: He's really not such a bad guy at all. He's the antagonist of the movie, but his antagonistic actions, such as kidnapping Akane to marry her, are a result of his strict adherence to tradition (he's looking for a legendary scroll half, and if it is in the possession of a woman, he must marry that woman; Akane happens to be holding it at the time), which in addition to being given plenty of sympathetic traits, makes him a pretty NiceGuy.
* BadassCape: Kirin wears a flowing yellow cape to make himself look both more regal and more imposing.
* BarrierWarrior: He can create an unbreakable barrier simply by snagging his opponent's fist with his metal chopsticks before it gets close...unless, that is, the other person uses ''[[WeaksauceWeakness the other fist]]'', or hurls something non-solid through his guard.
** In a more serious fight, he ''can'' block rapid fire punches from both hands.
* TheEvilPrince: Ranma and the others believe him to be this, especially when he kidnaps Akane. It turns out he's actually not evil so much as somewhat hidebound and unused to being told "no".
* GoldColoredSuperiority: As part of this movie's ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' parody, Kirin's BattleAura is gold to [[BlueIsHeroic Ranma's blue]].
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: To Lychee in the end]].
* IDoNotDrinkWine: As a Nekonronian, his mutated metabolism can only digest rice and pickled vegetables. Culturally, even a basic fried egg is disgusting ForeignQueasine to him.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: He uses chopsticks to create an almost impenetrable barrier about his person and can turn grains of rice into [[KiManipulation ki-laden]] bullets.
* LargeHam: Even for a Ranma 1/2 character, Kirin is prone to loud and melodramatic announcements.
-->"[[ThirdPersonPerson His name]] is... KIRIN!"
* PunchClockVillain: Portrayed as the antagonist of the movie, especially once he kidnaps Akane to marry her, but also given plenty of sympathetic traits and, once you get past his strict adherence to tradition, is a pretty NiceGuy.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Kirin always addresses himself in third person as a personal quirk, although precisely why is anybody's guess.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: It's not so much that he ''prefers'' "PPPP-PICKLES!!!!" but more like that's all his metabolism can deal with.
* TheWisePrince: He's loved by all his followers and they're fiercely loyal and devoted to him.

[[folder:Lychee]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/SakikoTamagawa (Japanese), Diana Wong (English), Mónica Estrada (Latin American Spanish)

Bearer of one half of the Scroll of Luck from Nekonron, she comes to Nerima chasing Happosai, who gave it to her grandparents and told them it would bring them luck. It did -- all bad. When she sees Prince Kirin, she thinks her "happily ever after" has come at last... then he decides that Akane is his bride, because she caught the scroll that Lychee just threw away.

* AnimeChineseGirl: Like Shampoo, she's a cute foreign girl from the remote regions of China who, in the English dub, speaks in [[HulkSpeak broken patterns]] with [[ThirdPersonPerson an emphasis on using her name instead of personal pronouns]]. Unlike Shampoo, she's not a martial artist, and instead relies on the protection of her wrestling elephant, Jasmine.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Lychee does manage to win Kirin's affections ''eventually'', after she risks her life in a water geyser to get back half of the scroll.]]
* GaveUpTooSoon: After spending a lifetime waiting for her promised prince, secret scroll in hand, she finally gets frustrated enough to toss it away. Two seconds later, cue legendary prince...
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: What brings Lychee to Nerima, searching for Happosai.
* SmallGirlBigGun: Like Akari, she is ever attended by a monstrous animal guardian, the wrestling elephant Jasmine.
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: And it turns out poorly. [[spoiler:Until the ''very end'' of the movie, where she does finally get her guy.]]
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: She's not very skilled at martial arts, and thus cannot usually contribute much to the group...but the fact that she has a pet elephant named Jasmine is essential to getting past the otherwise nigh-invulnerable Wu, because Wu takes an interest in making friends with Jasmine.
* ThrowTheDogABone: As we learn in the post-credits scene, [[spoiler:she ''does'' eventually end up marrying Prince Kirin.]]
* YouNoTakeCandle: In the dub, she's the only Chinese character other than Shampoo to speak in HulkSpeak.

!!Six Lucky Gods

The loyal vassals of Kirin and his fellow masters of the Seven Lucky Gods School of Martial Arts. These six warriors -- the fierce-looking Bishamonten, the twins Daikokusei and Daihakusei, the hulking Wu, the dwarfish Ebiten and the sultry Monlon -- serve as Kirin's last line of defense and agents of his will.

[[folder:Bishamonten]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/KazuhikoInoue (Japanese), Robert O. Smith (English), Abel Rocha (Latin American Spanish)

* TheUnfought: After a formidable display of spearfighting skills, Bishamonten is taken out by a single Happodaikarin because Happosai ''tripped''.

[[folder:Wu]]
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->Voiced by: You Yoshimura (Japanese), Terry Klassen (English)

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Wu doesn't care much for letting people past him as long as he has a plaything to distract him.
* DumbMuscle: He's bigger than the Asian elephant Jasmine and dumber than a box of rocks, while being almost impossible to hurt.
* GentleGiant: As formidable as he looks, Wu is actually very placid and would rather play with Jasmine than fight.
* NighInvulnerable: Wu's skin is so thick that Mousse's blades just bounce off of it.
* TheSpeechless: He can't even speak, he's that dimwitted.

[[folder:Monlon]]
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->Voiced by: Eiko Yamada (Japanese), Lynda Boyd (English), Ilia Gil (Latin American Spanish)

* DesignatedGirlFight: When Monlon is attacking Ranma and Lychee, Shampoo intervenes and challenges Monlon to a fight to let Ranma and Lychee pass.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Her right leg is covered by a transparent cloth while her other leg is bare.
* InstrumentOfMurder: Monlon's special technique involves entangling the victim in lute strings and then pulling them so tight that, if she strums the strings, the vibrations will [[RazorFloss cut the victim to pieces]].
* MagicalFloatingShawl: She wears a hagoromo that floats around her shoulders, giving her a divine image.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only woman of Kirin's vassals.

[[folder:Daikokusei and Daihakusei]]
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->Daikokusei is voiced by: Creator/TakehitoKoyasu (Japanese), Creator/PaulDobson (English), Roberto Carrillo (Latin American Spanish)
->Daihakusei is voiced by: Creator/MitsuakiMadono (Japanese), Creator/MichaelDobson (English), Igor Cruz (Latin American Spanish)

* CuttingTheKnot: Daikokusei and Daihakusei's palace is a giant Go board; as they smack pieces on their own game, giant pieces materialize overhead and crush invaders. When the twins boast that Ranma can't dodge forever, and [[SayingTooMuch he'll soon run out of "places to go" on the board]], he simply [[RememberedICouldFly jumps]] ''[[RememberedICouldFly on top]]'' [[RememberedICouldFly of the game pieces]] and disappears from the board, defeating the game.
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: Daikokusei and Daihakusei, being twins, often do this, and the second twin ''always'' RhymesOnADime to his brother's opener.
* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Their Go-themed "combat" style and personal insignias are opposites to each other, making it possible to tell the twins apart somewhat.
* SingleMindedTwins: They're twins with the exact same personality.
* ThemeTwinNaming: The twins' names, Daikokusei and Daihakusei, sound almost identical.

[[folder:Ebiten]]
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->Voiced by: You Yoshimura (Japanese), Nick Misura (English), Creator/CarlosInigo (Latin American Spanish)

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Ebiten is a pipsqueak who functions as Kirin's direct lieutenant and retainer, and thus [[ButtMonkey gets stepped on or yelled at more often than not]]. Until he whips out his fishing rod...
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Ebiten's primary means of attack is lashing his foe with his fishing rod's line so that it slices their flesh. He also uses a minor version to capture Akane, sending the line out to grab her by her arm and pull her to the spot in which the group is.

!Movie #2 Characters
[[folder:Prince Toma]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/MitsuakiMadono (Japanese), Alessandro Juliani (English), Yamil Atala (Latin American Spanish)

Ruler of the floating island of Togenkyo.
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: He may use it mostly as a focus for his illusions, but Toma's sword is sharp enough to easily sink halfway through the ceiling.
* AmazonChaser: Toma seems to have a thing for strong, authoritative women, given that his ultimate choice of bride is Akane and he chooses her because she had the audacity to ''slap him''.
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Toma and his minions kidnap various women. Then the bored prince demands that they compete in a "bridal tournament" for his amusement; the winner gets to marry Toma, and the losers will be divided up amongst the other residents of Togenkyo as they see fit.
* BondingOverMissingParents: Toma does this with Akane, soothing her justified rage towards him by revealing how his parents died when he was young and causing her to compare him to herself with her deceased mother.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: Toma decides Akane is the perfect bride after she climbs up to his spot, [[BitchSlap slaps him]] and chews him out for his treatment of the women he's selected to be his bride.
* MasterOfIllusion: He's able to use a powerful technique called the ''Mystic Illusion Chaos Strike'', which engulfs a foe in illusory fire so realistic that they actually feel like they are being burned alive.
* ParentalAbandonment: His parents died when he was very young.
* RoyalBrat: Having the allegiance of an entire island and its elite warriors thrust upon him went to his head.
* ShoutOut: Prince Toma and his elite guards are a parody of the famous Japanese mythological hero, Momotaro.
* SupernaturalMartialArts: Toma's techniques are amongst the most blatantly magical moves seen in the anime, and easily compare in weirdness, if not in power, to the techniques of Herb and Saffron.
* YourMindMakesItReal: Toma's Mystic Illusion Chaos Strike technique, which is his most powerful move, involves enveloping a foe in phantasmal fire and making them think they're being burned alive. However, it doesn't work if the victim concentrates (or uses real pain to block the fake one), which Ranma is able to do in their second fight, seeing through the illusion.

!!Toma's Elite Guards
Toma's three animal-human hybrid henchmen
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[[folder:Sarutoru]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/NobuoTobita (Japanese), Creator/PaulDobson (English), José Arenas (Latin American Spanish)

* CastingAShadow: He knows an unnamed technique that lets him summon a mobile, two-dimensional cloud of shadow that is BiggerOnTheInside and can be moved across land and water at very high speeds. He uses this ability to sneak around opponents, as well as to easily abduct women for the bridal ceremony.
* EmotionBomb: His ultimate technique, ''Shadow Fall'', envelops a foe in a dark mist and fills them with visions that plunge them into a despairing state so intense they typically lose the will to fight.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Sarutoru attempts to use his most powerful technique on Ryōga, "Shadow Fall." He envelops Ryōga in black fog, trapping Ryōga in a nightmare where he thinks Akane has hooked up with Ranma because Ryōga makes her sick. The technique technically ''works''; Ryōga slumps over and becomes incredibly depressed. Unfortunately for Sarutoru, Ryōga is absolutely the ''worst'' person to use that technique on...because making Ryōga unhappy powers up Ryōga's [[AngstNuke Shishi Hokodan]], which Ryōga then uses to knock Sarutoru out.
* IgnoredEnemy: Poor Sarutoru actually has to raise his hand and ask for permission to engage Ryōga in a fight because the latter is too busy arguing with Ukyō about whether it's worth it to rescue her instead of Akane.
* MonkeyKingLite: He's a monkey man serving as a bodyguard for a prince along other two animal hybrid men. His design is obviously based on Sun Wukong, up to wearing a gold circlet around his forehead.
* PunnyName: Sarutoru is a pun on Sartre/''Sarutore'', and "saru" is Japanese for "monkey".

[[folder:Toristan]]
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->Voiced by: Issei Futamata (Japanese), Gerard Plunkett (English), Creator/LuisDanielRamirez (Latin American Spanish)

* BerserkButton: Don't make fun of Toristan's appearance. Just ''don't'' if you value your life.
* FlechetteStorm: A favorite tactic of Toristan is to launch volleys of feathers turned darts to strike at foes' {{Pressure Point}}s and incapacitate them with pain.
* {{Gonk}}: Poor Toristan got the short end of the stick when exposed to the waters of Togenkyo's central spring; he still ''looks like a bird'', with a scrawny neck, oversized round head, big eyes with beady little pupils, and a tiny beak in the center of his moon-like face. The overall impression is absolutely ''ridiculous-looking'', causing Shampoo and Mousse to burst into uncontrollable laughter when they see it.
* HideYourOtherness: Understandably, he's incredibly sensitive about his comically bird-like face, and wears a more intimidating looking [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Street Fighter Claw-esque]] mask at all times to cover it up.
* PunnyName: Toristan is a pun on Tristan/''Torisutan'', "tori" is Japanese for "bird".

[[folder:Wonton]]
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->Voiced by: Satohito Nakajima (Japanese), Terry Klassen (English), Roberto Mendiola (Latin American Spanish)

* DogsAreDumb: Wonton, a dog-man, is the stupidest of Toma's guards, with even Toristan, the bird-man, displaying more intelligence.
* DumbMuscle: Wonton is incredible strong and fast, but no smarter than a particularly large and dimwitted dog. He [[CurbStompBattle curbstomps]] Kuno by effortlessly dodging Kuno's blows and then flattening him with open palm strikes, only to be defeated when Nabiki tosses a bone out of the window and Wonton instinctively chases it, falling to a knockout far below.
* PunnyName: Wonton is a pun on the Chinese food dish, "wan" is the Japanese onomatopoeia for a dog's bark, "woof".

* SuperpowerMeltdown: Part of his maturation process grants him a conscious PowerLimiter to give him controlled use of his extraordinary [[IncrediblyLamePun firepower]]. Interrupting his transformation did not decrease said power at all... but he hatched lacking that ever crucial PowerLimiter. He's only too happy to use his flame as dangerously and destructively as possible.

A pair of young twin girls from the Joketsuzoku tribe in China, Ling-Ling & Lung-Lung are sisters who deeply admire Shampoo and consider themselves to be her little sisters. Whether they're blood-related or not is unclear (the English dub does have Akane specify they're not her blood-relatives, they just consider her their OneeSama) but the two adore her and want to be just like her. They desperately want to prove their own strength, and to help Shampoo be happy. Sadly, their skills are somewhat... underwhelming.

* TradeMarkFavoriteFood: It's not so much that he ''prefers'' "PPPP-PICKLES!!!!" but more like that's all his metabolism can deal with.

Shampoo's younger twin sisters from Joketsuzoku.

* BrokenPedestal: Shampoo was their inspiration for trying to train so hard to become great martial artists, and they are heartbroken when Shampoo first seems to have betrayed their laws by giving up and reamaining dishonored, then actually tries to prevent them carrying out what the law demands.

* ForcefulKiss: He's a man who wants to kiss as many women as he can, without giving a damn about such details as the girl's consent. He even steals Ranma's SacredFirstKiss while he's in his woman form.

* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Her most defining trait is her tendency to randomly fixate on various objects that she deems "cute"[[note]]which are not necessarily always cute; in addition to things like P-chan or a blanket with a cute picture of a duck holding a balloon on it, she's also fixated on things like a spiral fishcake for ramen, a riceball, a stop sign and even Genma-as-Panda[[/note]], doing anything she can to grab it and take it home after giving it a "cutesy" French name. And "doing anything" includes "beating up whoever has it or who tries to stop her".

* ShoutOutThemeNaming: When naming a new purloined possession, Azusa doesn't simply pick French names out of a hat; she names them [[ShoutOut after characters from]] ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles''. This is much more evident in the anime, where she steals and names many more items on-screen than she does in the manga--and dresses up Genma-panda in full Lady Oscar {{cosplay}}.

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: In a way, with Lime playing the burly, silent type while Mint is more straightforward and excitable.

* ThereWasADoor: Walls? Where Lime walks, there ''are'' no walls. Or solid steel vault doors for that matter.

This Indian Hindu girl is the recipient of the most powerful known Jusenkyo spring. Pantyhose Taro accidentally stumbled across Rouge bathing one day. During her resultant punishment of him, he accidentally got her magnetic plasters (for treating her constant backaches) stuck to him, so she chased him after he ran away from her fury. The two of them tore up Nerima until Ranma managed to settle the problems.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Having six arms seems awesome... Until you realize it causes a killer backache.

* MultipleHeadCase: Well, more like Multiple Face Case -- she has three faces on one head, though each seems to have its own personality and mind, as they can be knocked out separately.

* PhysicalGod: The Asura is a semi-divine warrior-demon from Hindu mythology, so Rouge's cursed form is basically the living, flesh-and-blood embodiment of a deity.

* SplitPersonality: In her human form, acts like a sweet, polite, superstitious, and very feminine girl. As Asura, is much more aggressive, masculine, and violent. Furthermore, she seems unaware of what she does in her Asura form, in one memorable incident helping to repair the Tendo Dojo after destroying it in Asura form, apparently completely oblivious to that she destroyed it in the first place and simply thinking that it is a sign of bad luck. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Of course, she could just use the Asura form as an excuse to vent her own negative feelings and feign ignorance of her actions afterwards]]...
* SuperPowerLottery: Lucked out even better than Pantyhose Taro, having gained the curse of a Hindu war god/demon with all the supernatural powers that entails.

* LookAlikeLovers: At the end of her arc, the haunted mirror creates a clone of male Ranma. Mirror Girl Ranma and Mirror Boy Ranma instantly fall in love with each other.

%%* ArrogantKungFuGuy

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Not their name, precisely, but the name of their school has been translated as both "Kolhotz" (anime) and "Kholkhoz" (manga).

* {{Bokukko}}: Inverted; Tsubasa uses the very feminine pronoun ''atashi''.

* {{Crossdresser}}: Tsubasa considers himself a boy, but wears girls' clothes because he likes them better. If he's disguised as random scenery, he'll still be wearing a pretty dress under the costume.

* TransEqualsGay: Defied. Tsubasa is a male crossdresser and quiet vocally only interested in girls. Akane asks Ukyo if Tsubasa is an ''okama'', and he chimes in to insist he is a "guy who likes women's clothes".

* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: His parents neither make an appearance nor are mentioned at all.

* ArrogantKungFuGuy

* MiseryPoker: Oh, woe, she suffers ''so much''. It's all because of that evil, evil man! Won't someone please stand up for her? She seems to genuinely believe it all though, as she is a firm believer in astrology, bad signs, happenstance, and the like.

* SatelliteLoveInterest: She only appears in one {{filler}} episode to be a potential secondary love interest for Ryoga who ends up turning her down.

* AnIcePerson: Natsume's signature ability is to channel icy ki through her carpet beater, imbuing her attacks with a frigid aspect that causes them to leave frost on whatever they touch.

* TheWorfEffect: Natsume and Kurumi face off against Ranma and Akane in a 2-on-2 match at the end of the first of their two OAVs, and win handily.

* Camera Abuse: The anime original episode ''Kuno Becomes a Marianne!'' ends with Azusa stealing the camera.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Ranma only managed to beat Herb by coming up with a reversed version of the Hiryu Shoten Ha that both took advantage of Herb's ability to make it suck up Ranma instead of Herb and sucked in all of the ki energy that Herb had been throwing around. The result was a downward-aimed blast of energy that caught Herb and smashed him against the ground with such force that the mountain couldn't take any more punishment.

* ExtremeOmnisexual: As long as the guy is good-looking, she'll want to date him. After finding out Ranma is a GenderBender, she immediately wants to get into bed with him even though she was created from his girl form's reflection. Later, she ends up falling in love with a mirror clone of male Ranma.

* UnevenHybrid: They're the distant descendants of animals cursed into humanoid women shapes and mated with human males. As a result, they've inherited subtle animalistic traits.

* DragonAncestry: The distant descendant of a dragon cursed into a humanoid woman shape and mated with a human male.

* DisproportionateRetribution: When Ranma gets upset at Herb's minions for manhandling Akane, Herb pummels Ranma and then gives him a ModeLock, despite knowing firsthand how much that sucks. When Ranma comes after him demanding his curse be unlocked, Herb tries to kill him. [In the end, he reveals he hates Ranma so much because Ranma's female form is inexplicably identical to the form his monkey "training woman" assumed through Jusenkyo, which Ranma certainly can't control!

* MakeMeWannaShout: The Yamasenken school usually opens with a loud yell of "'''Don't move!'''" It's not the words that freeze the opponent, but the sheer '''VOLUME''' that catches anyone, even rampaging grizzlies, off guard.

* CatchPhrase: "Charge!", said while running forward, often in disguise and through a wall.

* {{Bishonen}}: Somewhat, but doesn't really look particularly feminine beyond the white and pink hair.

* RatedMForManly: Militaristic in attitude and combat style, and probably the most "man's man" male in the series ([[EpilepticTrees with the possible exception of Lime]]).

* SerialRomeo: Tsubasa will immediately fall in love with basically any cute girl who's nice to him, often from the consoling him after the previous one rejected him. Sometimes he doesn't even wait to get over one girl before falling for another.

* IncompatibleOrientation: {{Subverted|Trope}}. At first, Tsubasa is thought to be a lesbian who is crushing on straight girls (and a guy who is actually a GenderBender). Ranma tries to woo Tsubasa in his male form, only for Tsubasa to not be into him... because Tsubasa is actually a guy who [[CampStraight likes girls despite dressing like one]].